The Washington critic., 1887-02-07

and 1t will stay just whore 1t Is. inc
drunker be may have been when he
went in, all the moro credit he deserves
for coming out so glorlously sober
WE agree with the Capitai that it's
a shame aud disgrace for the District
Commissioners to be condemned to re-
main In the oil rattle.trap on Four
and d.ahalf street" but we see no help
for It. 1t looks now as though they
would have to stay there indefinitely,
simply because no agreement can be
arrived at as to the site of the new
building, Private property is not
available, owing to irreconCilable con-
flicis Of interest; public property is
unavailable, because people are afraid
they won't have room to breathe If an
acre or two out of twcnty.acre reser-
walton is built on. They don't seem to
care whether the Commissioners and
other District officials have chance to
breathe or not. And so the matter
stands. The rats, the reaches and the
bed.bugs carry the day.
THE latest applicant for position as
an Interstate Commerce Railroad Com
missioner is NJ. ]. Pickering, travel.
ing salesman of Philadelphia, and the
chairman of the National Railroad
Committee of the Travellers Protective
Association. lie Is backed by one Of
the largest and most enterprisiug classes
of business men. and there will he a
committee here during the week to
urge his claims. If the President can
withstand the gentle appeals of the
'drummers' he will be ready to be-
come a marble statue fifteen minutes
after the committee leaves him, il it
ever does.
THE Fourth of July claims" about
which we hear so much in Congress
from time to time, are a mystery to
most people outside of the claimants.
They have no particular relation to the
great anniversary with which their
mention is usually coupled, excepting
that they were authorized 10 be paid by
act of Congress of July i, 1864. They
are claims for property appropriated
during the war as qulrtermasters'
stores. The bill that passed the House
Saturday provides for the payment of
j67 of them, to the amount of SlSl, 1872,
and some $500 more remain to be
acted on.
THE Mattoon Qll) Commercial ia.
vors the nomination of General John
G.. Black for President. 1t does not
hesitate TO pronounce him zone of the
purest men in public life, " and adds
that "there is no one in the broad
West who would so totally and abso-
lutely overcome the SC. called soldier
opposition to the Democratic party"
1t is questionable whether the Com
missioner of Pensions has aspirations
in that direction, but there is no doubt
of his strength with the Western vets.
Mn. COOK, late Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, thinks that not less than
100000 trade dollars will be pre-
sented for redemption should Congress
furnish the opportunity. The specula
tors have not been idle and have
bought up all of these coins they could
| get hold of at from % cents down to as
low as 20 cents. OF course there is no
legislation possible by which the losers
can be reimbursed.
Thirty FOUR years ago yesterday
Rev. Dir. Sunderland of the First Pres
byterian Church preached the first SER
mon of his pastorate there. Almost
eighteen hundred Sundays-and the
Doctors chief regret, rs he stated IN
his sermon yesterday, was that there
were some in his congregation who
were out of the fold when he first came
and they are still in the same condition.
THE New York GrUphic continues
TO urge, and with commendable per-
sistency, the passage of the bill by
Congress to increase the salaries of
Cabinet officers and Supreme Court
Justices to $4,000. They occupy
highly honorable and responsible po.
sitions, and, more than that, the style
they are expected to keep up costs
money.
OUR esteemed Sunday contemporary
the Herald, appeared yesterday in a
brand,new and very handsome dress,
indicating, not only the best of me.
chanical taste on the part Of the pro.
prietors, but their increasing and well.
merited prosperity. The Herdld is q
good paper right straight along and de.
serves well of the Washington public.
CONSIDERING tn at the militia force
Of the United States aggregates about
1880, 600 men, an appropriation of less
than six cents per capita for their
equipment can hardly be considered
eXtravagant. Yet this is all the pro.
posed appropriation of 100000 by
Congress amounts to.
THE CRrTIC's ADVERTISING rates arc lowa
than any ddRypaper IN Washington.
II is increasing in circulation faster Tia,
all he other city papers.
Win It's loiv rates and recognized popular
ity il is The best medium for adre1ising il
The District.
n Is deiirered By carriers at 35 cents pei
month.
Building an Addition.
Wife Ito husband) This house Is nj
together to small for our needs, John. VIII
don't you put an addition to ~
Husband (thoughtfullyl-l'ye been think
ing Of that
Wiic-something In the shape of wing
Ilusband-NO; something In the shape o
mortgage.-[S n. Y. Sun,